Exempts persons holding the office of code enforcement officer of the city of Auburn from the requirement that such person be a resident of the political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which such person shall be chosen or within which such person's official functions are required to be exercised.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A10238
SPONSOR: Rules (Lemondes)
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public officers law, in relation to qualifications
for holding the office of code enforcement officer of the city of Auburn
 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To facilitate the hiring of code enforcement personnel in the City of
Auburn. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: adds a new subdivision to Section 3 of the public officers
law to allow the city of Auburn to hire code enforcement officers who
live in Cayuga County or adjoining counties.
Section 2: Sets the effective date.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
This bill, introduced at the request of the City of Auburn, amends the
public officers law to allow more flexibility in residency requirements
for the purpose of hiring code enforcement officers in said city.
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This bill is effective immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10238
IN ASSEMBLY
May 15, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Lemondes) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to qualifications
for holding the office of code enforcement officer of the city of
Auburn
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 75 to read as follows:
3 75. In the city of Auburn, in the county of Cayuga, the provisions of
4 this section requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdi-
5 vision or municipal corporation of the state for which such person shall
6 be chosen or within which such person's official functions are required
7 to be exercised, shall not prevent such person from holding the office
8 of code enforcement officer of the city of Auburn, provided that such
9 person resides in Cayuga county, or in an adjoining county within the
10 state of New York; provided, however that any person performing such
11 functions of code enforcement officer in any other city in the state
12 shall be a resident of such city unless otherwise provided by law.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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